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s&box from Rust developer Facepunch is now open source

By Liam Dawe,
s&box from Rust developer Facepunch is a modern game engine built on Valve's Source 2 and the latest .NET, and now it is open source!

Sektori is absolutely one of the best modern twin-stick shooters

By Liam Dawe,
Sektori blasted onto Steam recently and I've been absolutely loving it, this is easily one of the best modern twin-stick shooters and fantastic to play.
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KDE Plasma going all-in on Wayland and will drop the X11 session completely

By Liam Dawe,
It was only a matter of time but it's nearly upon us - KDE Plasma with version 6.8 will be entirely dropping the X11 session to go full Wayland.

Build your own Capcom All-Stars Bundle and save with Fanatical

By Liam Dawe,
Fanatical have another pretty good Capcom bundle here where you can save monies on multiple top titles.

Slimbook launch the KDE Slimbook VII with AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 / Radeon 880M

By Liam Dawe,
In the market for a new powerful laptop ready for the holiday season? Perhaps give a look to the new KDE Slimbook VII.

Fedora proposal put forward to improve "production stability and incident management"

By Liam Dawe,
After a string of annoying incidents after updates causing stability problems on Fedora, there's a new proposal put forward to help improve things.

The action RPG 'Soulframe' from the devs of Warframe gets a Steam page and early access for founders

By Liam Dawe,
It's not officially out yet, but you can now jump in early to Soulframe, the in-development action RPG from the developers of the popular Warframe.

Heck yeah - the next HELLDIVERS 2 Warbond finally brings a minigun

By Liam Dawe,
HELLDIVERS 2 is still one of the best online co-op action games around, and we're finally going to be able to get a minigun to really tear through enemies.

If you're starving for more Advance Wars styled games check out Apes Warfare

By Liam Dawe,
More turn-based strategy goodness inspired by Advance Wars? Yes please. Apes Warfare gives us another spin on the classic genre out now in Early Access.

Embracer Group selling off Arc Games and Cryptic Studios

By Liam Dawe,
Embracer Group have announced they're once again shrinking, after previously going on a crazy spending spree and then having to make lots of cuts.

Two Point Museum: Zooseum DLC is the biggest yet launching December 2 with a free update out now

By Liam Dawe,
SEGA and Two Point Studios revealed today that not only will the Two Point Museum: Zooseum DLC be the biggest yet but it's also arriving really soon.

Cold Fear, I Am Alive and more arrive in the GOG Preservation Program along with a Black Friday sale

By Liam Dawe,
For those that prefer the DRM-free store GOG, they've expanded again with new enhanced releases of Cold Fear and I Am Alive along with a Black Friday sale.

TRX an open-source reimplementation of Tomb Raider 1 and Tomb Raider 2 version 1.0 released

By Liam Dawe,
With lots of enhancements for the classics Tomb Raider 1 and Tomb Raider 2, the TRX project version 1.0 is out now with an LUA scripting engine for modders.

Voivod: The Nuclear Warrior shows off a new prototype trailer of the heavy metal platformer

By Liam Dawe,
Chaosmonger Studio continue working on Voivod: The Nuclear Warrior a retro-styled heavy metal platformer in partnership with the band Voivod.

You can get 18 different stories in the Assemble Entertainment Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
A nice big mixture of games, themes and stories here available in the Assemble Entertainment Humble Bundle.

Nominations begin for the 2025 Steam Awards

By Liam Dawe,
One of the biggest events of the year for game developers is here, with the nominations now open for the 2025 Steam Awards.

Classic racers FlatOut and FlatOut 2 get Steam Achievements, bug fixes and more improvements

By Liam Dawe,
ZOOM Platform Media just gave the classic racers FlatOut and FlatOut 2 some more free upgrades, nice to see them continued to be supported.

God game Reus 2 adds full Steam Deck / SteamOS support in the latest update

By Liam Dawe,
Reus 2 from Abbey Games recently had a big upgrade, and now it's Steam Deck Verified / SteamOS Compatible with full support from the developer.

Chaotic climbing game ChimpUP! looks hilarious

By Liam Dawe,
ChimpUP! is an upcoming chaotic multiplayer climbing game about monkeys trying to collect bananas, where each player has independent grapple hooks for arms.

xorg-server 21.1.21 freshly released to fix some annoying regressions

By Liam Dawe,
For those of you still rocking xorg rather than Wayland, there's a new release out that should hopefully fix up some issues you may have been seeing.